Year 3
Year 3 Curriculum Projects
YEAR 3 PROJECT - Through the Ages
In the Through the Ages project, your child will learn about three different periods of British prehistory: the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. They will discover terminology relating to time and sequence dates to make a timeline. They explore the changes to people, homes and lifestyle throughout the different periods and investigate examples of prehistoric settlements, monuments, burials and artefacts in detail. They will also study how technology improved over time, including how the discovery of different metals changed the way that people lived.
Memorable Experience: 'Prehistoric visit'
Geography: Human features; Stone Age monuments
History: Historical vocabulary; Prehistory; Stone Age; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Chronology and timelines; Everyday life; Tools and weapons; Settlements; Stonework and metalwork; Religion and beliefs; Wealth and power; Invention and ingenuity; Evidence and enquiry
This project is also supported by mini projects in;
Science: Skeletal and Muscular Systems
Art and Design: Prehistoric Pots
Design and Technology: Cook Well, Eat Well
Computing: lessons derived from D.A.R.E.S
Music: lessons derived from Kapow
PE: lessons derived from TeamThemeKent
PSHE: lessons derived from JIGSAW content
RE: lessons derived from Kent SACRE scheme and Cornerstones RE projects
More information about the Year 3 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 3 Long Term Plan 2024-2025 document found below.
Year 3 Key Information
In Year 3, PE lessons are timetabled for Tuesday (Tennis) and Wednesday (Tag Rugby)
Please make sure kits are in school and earrings are removed.
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English
W/c 13th October 2025
This week we will continue working on our Year 3 Place Value of Grammar and Punctuation unit. This week we will apply all of our prior learning to punctuation larger pieces of text. We will find verbs/verb phrases and subjects, identify leftover and link them to clauses. We will then add pull stops, capital letters and commas where required.
Playing 'punctuation pirates' on Ed Shed will support this.
Spellings
We have 4 spelling groups:
- Acorns
- Conkers
- Pine Cones; and
- Leaves
Information on your child's spelling group is in their reading record.
Spellings will be given on Wednesday 15th October and dictation is on Tuesday 21st October 2025.
This weeks' phoneme is 'i'
Acorns
still
tick
swim
gift
click
pitch
quick
history
being
asking
gym
Egypt
lynx
myth
symbol
Conkers
quick
being
asking
click
pitch
different
history
increase
difficuly
important
gym
myth
Egypt
lynx
symbol
Pine Cones
quick
being
asking
click
pitch
different
history
increase
difficult
important
disappear
experiment
medicine
interest
imagine
consider
gym
myth
Egypt
lynx
symbol
pyramid
mystery
bicycle
Next week's spellings
Spellings will be given on Wednesday 22nd October and dictation is on Tuesday 28th October 2025.
This weeks' phoneme is 'ai'
Acorns
like
five
decide
reply
sky
why
quiet
cried
high
right
light
bye
eye
Conkers
like
five
decide
arrive
describe
reply
nearby
why
quiet
cried
tried
right
light
fighter
high
bye
dye
eye
Pine Cones
decide
arrive
describe
entire
excitement
library
bicycle
reply
nearby
cycle
terrify
why
quiet
cried
tried
right
light
fighter
fortnight
high
bye
goodbye
dye
eye
https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/menu
Maths
W/c 13th October 2025
This week we will:
- Subtract with no exchange
- add two 3-digit numbers across 10
- add two 3-digit numbers across 100
Please encourage your child to access Times Table Rock Stars at home. Their log in is the same as their Numbots log in. Their focus should currently be on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Below are links to Infinity quizzes to help further embed in class learning.
https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home
Maths recap
Class code SLR-JJW
Additional Information
Parents evening will take place on Tuesday 14th October and Thursday 16th October.
Children need their reading book and reading record in school every day.
Thank you to everyone who sent in toilet rolls last week.
Due to the changeable UK weather, please send your child to school with a coat each day.
Show and Tell
Show and Tells are welcome anytime but these should be recent personal achievements or linked to our 'in class' learning.
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We encourage the children to:
- Read every day for at least 15 minutes.
- Spend 15 minutes on TTRS or Numbots.
- Access their spellings on Spelling Shed